Results for: dissent from supreme power

Indictment Imperils the Rights of All
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnandandyschlafly/2023/04/05/indictment-imperils-the-rights-of-all-n2621564
– It shifts his time and focus away from devoting all of his energy to his reelection campaign. … In other cases the Supreme Court has held likewise. In Mitchum v. … , including dozens of invocations by the Supreme Court itself.…
Trump Preempts Politicized Prosecutors
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnandandyschlafly/2022/11/09/trump-preempts-politicized-prosecutors-n2615675
– Democrats are “persecuting their political opponents and silencing dissent,” Trump declared to the immense Ohio crowd. … The Supreme Court shockingly allows a runaway county prosecution to interrogate Sen. … Trump, the president who got us out of wars and made the world a safer place, was supposedly harboring nuclear codes from his time…
A Judge Accepts the Biden Administration's Dubious Argument for Banning Gun Possession by Marijuana Users
https://townhall.com/columnists/jacobsullum/2022/11/09/a-jud…or-daring-to-exercise-their-second-amendment-rights-n2615655
– That is the constitutional test the Supreme Court has said gun control laws must pass. … But as Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett pointed out in a 2019 dissent as a judge on the U.S. … "Legislatures have the power to prohibit dangerous people from possessing guns," Barrett wrote.…
The 3rd Circuit Considers Whether Nonviolent Crimes Justify the Loss of Second Amendment Rights
https://townhall.com/columnists/jacobsullum/2023/01/11/the-3…iction-bryan-range-is-no-longer-allowed-to-own-guns-n2618129
– That take jibes with a 2019 dissent that Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote as a judge on the U.S. … "Legislatures have the power to prohibit dangerous people from possessing guns," she said. … "But that power extends only to people who are (SET ITAL) dangerous.…
Non-Competes Ban is Yet Another Sign of FTC Mission Creep
https://townhall.com/columnists/youngvoicescontributors/2023…mpetes-ban-is-yet-another-sign-of-ftc-mission-creep-n2618852
– But it should come as no surprise from Biden’s administration. … Many described this as a shift away from the consumer welfare standard. … The Commission has rejected the idea of limiting power and regulatory reach.…
Appointment of New Ruthless Police Chief Will Not Crush Iran's Protesters
https://townhall.com/columnists/struanstevenson/2023/02/07/a…thless-police-chief-will-not-crush-irans-protesters-n2619232
– Dreading the downfall of his theocratic regime, Iran’s Supreme Leader – Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has pressed the panic button. … His ruthlessness and steadfast dedication to the Supreme Leader saw him rise rapidly through the ranks during the Iran-Iraq war. … In his last months in power, the Shah rapidly replaced his ministers, tried curfews and martial laws, and opened fire on protesters…
Is Joe Biden Attempting to Be the American Mao?
https://townhall.com/columnists/dugganflanakin/2023/02/13/is-joe-biden-attempting-to-be-the-american-mao-n2619487
– Similarly, Biden’s victories stem from the tight discipline of the Democratic Party. … Both focused on total transformation of a nation and silencing of dissent. … Ethics, even honesty, are out the window – the only thing that matters is power and control.…
End the 'Abortion Exceptionalism' Double Standard
https://townhall.com/columnists/joshhammer/2021/10/29/end-the-abortion-exceptionalism-double-standard-n2598215
Supreme Court prepares for its expedited Nov. 1 hearing in U.S. v. Texas. … The power of judicial review is more limited: It allows a court to decline to enforce a statute, and to enjoin the executive from enforcing … The Supreme Court's majority in its Sept. 1 decision adopted Mitchell's argument, writing: "Federal courts enjoy the power to enjoin…
5 Important Quotes from Justice Thomas's Dissent in Biden v. Missouri
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2022/01/14/clarence-thomas-dissent-n2601851
– Below are some of the most important quotes from that opinion.  1. … J., dissenting from denial of initial hearing en banc)." 2. … I respectfully dissent."…
LATEST: Supreme Court Slaps Down Biden's Private Employer Vaccine Mandate
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2022/01/13/breaking-scotus-n2601816
– The Supreme Court ruled Thursday to strike down President Joe Biden's Wuhan coronavirus vaccine mandate for private businesses. … power.  … That kind of universal risk is no different from the day-to-day dangers that all face from crime, air pollution, or any number of communicable…
Iranian Regime Cannot Survive International Accountability and Growing Domestic Unrest
https://townhall.com/columnists/ivansaschasheehan/2022/02/08…national-accountability-and-growing-domestic-unrest-n2602991
– and consolidate power in the hands of the ayatollahs, effectively replacing one dictatorship with another. … As those loyal to the Supreme Leader purged those deemed subversive to the new system, one prominent voice of dissent – the People’ … In fact, formal calls for Raisi’s arrest may have prevented him from traveling to the U.N.…
Senator Sinema Should Make 2022 Her Year of Revenge
https://townhall.com/columnists/spencerbrown/2022/02/03/senator-sinema-should-make-2022-her-year-of-revenge-n2602764
– Senate than has been seen recently from Schumer, Biden, or nearly any other Democrat Senator.  … All this from the party that claims to be committed to diversity.  … With a looming Supreme Court confirmation to fill Justice Breyer’s seat, Democrats can’t afford any dissent from their own party.…
Trudeau’s Canadian Fascism Is a Bigger Threat to America Than Putin
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2022/02/24/tr…an-fascism-is-a-bigger-threat-to-america-than-putin-n2603631
– They love the idea of criminalizing dissent – look at the January 6th witch trials – and they are taking notes.   … We have protections and structures that will help prevent that from ever having to happen again, like the Constitution. … After all, we are not submissives from Ottawa.…
Biden Nominee Argued Against Free Speech Near Abortion Clinics
https://townhall.com/columnists/terryjeffrey/2022/03/02/bide…e-argued-against-free-speech--near-abortion-clinics-n2603997
– Would that comply with the First Amendment, which denies government the power to make any law "abridging the freedom of speech"? … President Joe Biden's nominee to replace Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court argued in a federal court case that the government … The year before this Massachusetts law came up in the 1st Circuit, the Supreme Court reviewed a similar Colorado law that prohibited…
Judging in the Judiciary Committee
https://townhall.com/columnists/terryjeffrey/2022/03/23/judging-in-the-judiciary-committee-n2604911
– Connecticut, the Supreme Court reviewed a Connecticut law that banned contraception. … In his questioning of Jackson, Cornyn quoted from Black's dissent in that case. … Wade, he would not have nominated her to the Supreme Court.…
After Bucha, the World Must Never Delay Justice for Crimes Against Humanity
https://townhall.com/columnists/majidrafizadeh/2022/04/09/af…ust-never-delay-justice-for-crimes-against-humanity-n2605666
– The “death commissions” responsible for those trials were empaneled in the wake of then-Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini issuing a … In comparison to the massacre in Bucha, the 1988 massacre of Iranian prisoners took place relatively far from the public eye. … Islamic extremism are core features of the clerical regime’s strategy for maintaining power.…
An Unrepentant Pastor and the First Amendment
https://townhall.com/columnists/lizmurrill/2022/04/04/an-unrepentant-pastor-and-the-first-amendment-n2605407
– Amendment leads the Bill of Rights and is a key feature of virtually every state’s constitution for good reason: if we cannot be free from … This case from the outset has been an affront to both the state and federal constitutions. … There is no limit to this type of power grab.…
The DHS Disinformation Board and the Attack on Individual Sovereignty
https://townhall.com/columnists/jonathanemord/2022/04/30/the…tion-board-and-the-attack-on-individual-sovereignty-n2606540
– security has rendered his official title an oxymoron, divulged (conveniently on the heels of Elon Musk’s planned liberation of Twitter from … Jankowicz favors government regulation to rid conservative voices from media and endorses as fact two major falsehoods: that the Hunter … and press, insisting that the federal government has no power to establish an official speech orthodoxy by banning dissent.  …
Here's Why the Supreme Court Just Upheld Biden's Immigration Policy
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2023/06/23/suprem…upholds-biden-immigration-policy-on-a-technicality-n2624908
– The Supreme Court's 8-1 decision in United States v. … In his dissent, Justice Alito explained his differing perspective: This sweeping Executive Power endorsed by today’s decision may … Because the majority shuns that duty, I must respectfully dissent.…
Democrats' Assault on 'Our Democracy'
https://townhall.com/columnists/joshhammer/2023/07/07/democrats-assault-on-our-democracy-n2625449
– this sort from the highest levels of government are not only inappropriate, they are dangerous." … There are few threats as vehemently anti-"democratic" as that of packing the Supreme Court. … from Regime orthodoxy.…
Do You Love America?
https://townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2023/07/06/do-you-love-america-n2625355
– The Declaration of Independence was a lie; the Constitution was merely a guise for power. … Biden's response: He pledged to utilize the executive branch to work around the Supreme Court's ruling. … celebrate the founding for what it was: a breakthrough in the nature of human governance, a ringing statement in favor of liberty from
The One Speech Ingraham Says Republicans Should Play If They 'Want to Win in 2024'
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2023/07/18/becky-pringle-speech-n2625858
– reading scores among U.S. teens, many of whom were pushed into Zoom school during pandemic lockdowns, thanks in large part to pressure from … Right here in Florida, we will preserve and strengthen a democracy that was steeped in the power of “We the People!”  … Both ended their blistering rebukes with these powerful words: I dissent. NEA, we ALL dissent!…
No, Israel Is Not in Existential Danger of Civil War
https://townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2023/07/27/no-israel-is-not-in-existential-danger-of-civil-war-n2626265
– That reform curbs the overweening power of the Israeli Supreme Court, which declared in the 1990s that it had the unilateral ability … Now that a religious and traditional coalition has taken power, many secular Israelis feel truly insecure. … far more authoritarian to shut down the workings of an elected government via non-electoral means than to shift power from an unelected…
Beware Iranian Wolves in Sheep's Clothing
https://townhall.com/columnists/struanstevenson/2023/07/25/beware-iranian-wolves-in-sheeps-clothing-n2626147
– US, to normalize relations and end the diplomatic discord that has persisted since the Islamic Revolution brought the mullahs to power … ’s Gestapo, and their militia thugs the Basij, to crush dissent. … His degree in physics from the American University in Beirut and PhD in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology…
Informal Censorship Is Worse Than Book Burning -- And It's Here
https://townhall.com/columnists/armstrongwilliams/2023/07/20…censorship-is-worse-than-book-burning-and-its-here-n2625962
– president promises to consider antitrust suits to break up newspaper monopolies and retroactive legislation prohibiting newspapers fromSupreme Court condemned a comparable scheme of informal government censorship in Bantam Books v. Sullivan (1963). … support for amending Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to dimmish the legal safe harbor social media companies enjoy from
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